Dance Lodges of the Omaha People: Building from Memory

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

Offers insights into how circular wooden lodges shaped Omaha cultural identity and illustrates the adaptive abilities of the modern Omaha tribe. This book highlights developments in research on these lodges since 1992 and speculates on the connection between these lodges and the spread of the Omaha Hethushka dance across the Great Plains.

Portrait

Mark Awakuni-Swetland is an assistant professor of anthropology and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches Omaha language classes and coordinates the development of Omaha language curriculum materials, including a forthcoming Omaha language textbook. Roger Welsch is the author of over thirty books, including "Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales," available in a Bison Books edition.

Pressestimmen

"This volume is a success as both history and ethnography and presents a useful case study of Native cultural resistance and adaptation to pervasive efforts at detribalization and assimilation. It also emphasizes the research value of tribal oral history and illustrates how such histories might be collected and preserved for future generations." John M. O'Shea Journal of Anthropological Research